The purpose was to prevent identification; and that purpose would have been more easily, and much more completely, achieved by sacrificing the ring, by filing through it or breaking it off the finger.

The base of the cross is carved with representations of the martyrdoms of St. Stephen, St. Edmund and St. Thomas à Becket, though they are so worn that one must accept the identification on trust.

"That a controllable squint is a very valuable asset to a person who wishes to avoid identification.

The PAROLE is a word used as a check on the countersign in order to obtain more accurate identification of persons.

One other exploit of his is told by Sallust, but with such blunders of geography as render identification of the place impossible.

Lastly, time and place both support the identification.

At Abbeville all the former precautions were renewedwe underwent another solemn identification of our persons at the Hotel de Ville, and an abstract of our history was again enregistered at the inn.

One might have thought that Tom would have been satisfied with merely blacking his face, and leaving to chance the identification of the negro who might be apprehended.

The first and second facts, you will agree, constitute complete identification.

In the House of Lords, Lord Bristol, who brought the question forward, denounced "this identification of a judge with the executive government as injurious to the judicial character, subversive of the liberty of the people, and having a direct and alarming tendency to blend and amalgamate those great elementary principles of political power which it is the very object of a free constitution to keep separate and distinct."

Such was the case, for instance, with a female member of the company, seated in a place of honour near the host, whose demure garb and gentle countenance seemed to indicate her as a Lady Pacifist, but denied all further identification.

Byron remained at Newstead till the close of October, negotiating with creditors and lawyers, and engaged in a correspondence about his publications, in the course of which he deprecates any identification of himself and his hero, though he had at first called him Childe Byron.

The remarks that followed his identification were as ludicrous as they were vigourous.

" "But, man, I've given you an identification that would convict me of murder in any court in the land.

" "And how," Mr. Bellingham asked, "would that help the identification?"

"Yes, in many channels, with a certain amount of caution, but in such a manner as to insure Mrs. Holbrook's identification, if she had fallen into the hands of any one willing to communicate with me, and to insure her own attention, were she free to act for herself.

He did not mind dipping his hand into a friendly pocket, and he had a way of flinging himself helplessly upon the good nature of his friends, a want of dignity in the way he accepted their assistance, which went far to justify the identification of him with the very disagreeable portrait which Dickens drew of him, as Harold Skimpole in Bleak House.

True and genuine friendship presupposes a strong sympathy with the weal and woe of anotherpurely objective in its character and quite disinterested; and this in its turn means an absolute identification of self with the object of friendship.

If they drop that separateness which is made their reproach, they may be in danger of lapsing into a cosmopolitan indifference equivalent to cynicism, and of missing that inward identification with the nationality immediately around them which might make some amends for their inherited privation.

"The minister" in Little Arcady meant him of the Methodist church, the two other clergymen being so young and unimportant as to need identification by name.

"It is merely," I said, "an identification of the reasoner's intellect with that of his opponent.

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" "Yes," said Marchmont; "I think we must admit the identification as being quite conclusive, though the evidence is of a kind that is more striking to the medical than to the legal mind.

She recalled Frederic's identification of himself, and after that all was blank.

I regard the identification of these articles, by her, as sufficiently complete.